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Moving beyond Decoding: Teaching Pronoun Resolution to Develop Reading Comprehension
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Letchford, Lois; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Teacher, 2021
"Little" words often carry complex meanings. Pronoun resolution is an essential component of comprehension. Skilled readers work to maintain text cohesion (i.e., they resolve the pronouns as needed.) Less proficient readers often are not as proficient in resolving pronouns. Limited pronoun resolution limits comprehension. This article…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
Testing the KAPS Model of Reading Comprehension in a Turkish Elementary School Context from Low Socioeconomic Background
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Yildirim, Kasim; Cetinkaya, Fatih Cetin; Ates, Seyit; Kaya, Dudu; Rasinski, Timothy – Education Sciences, 2020
This correlational study aimed to explore the relations of background knowledge, automaticity (rate), prosody, and strategy use with reading comprehension (KAPS model of reading comprehension) in the written Turkish language context with 207 fourth grade students. Successful comprehension requires readers to make meaning out of what they read. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Turkish, Reading Comprehension
Readers Theatre plus Comprehension and Word Study
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Young, Chase; Stokes, Faida; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Teacher, 2017
Readers Theatre has been used to introduce critical issues, promote fluency among English learners and non-English learners, teach vocabulary, and integrate content in the classroom. Previous studies of Readers Theatre application have demonstrated an increase in student reading fluency, motivation, and confidence. The focus of this systemic…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Reading Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension
The Roots of Comprehension
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Rasinski, Timothy; Padak, Nancy; Newton, Joanna – Educational Leadership, 2017
Wide vocabulary knowledge is associated with proficiency in reading comprehension and scores on tests involving comprehension. Yet assessments show that U.S. students at various grade levels have demonstrated no improvement in their vocabulary knowledge since 2009. Literacy expert Timothy Rasinski and colleagues argue that students need improved…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Instructional Improvement
Relationships between Turkish Eighth-Grade Students' Oral Reading Efficacy, Reading Comprehension and Achievement Scores on a High-Stakes Achievement Test
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Yildiz, Mustafa; Kanik Uysal, Pinar; Bilge, Huzeyfe; Patricia Wolters, Alissa; Saka, Yavuz; Yildirim, Kasim; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Psychology, 2019
The present study aimed to explore the relation between students' oral reading efficacy, reading comprehension, and academic performance on a nationwide high school placement exam (TEOG). The students were selected from a public middle school. The students' oral reading efficacy, comprehension, and TEOG achievement scores were obtained to figure…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, High Stakes Tests
Fluency and Comprehension of Narrative Texts in Turkish Students in Grades 4 through 8
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Yildirim, Kasim; Rasinski, Timothy; Kaya, Dudu – Education 3-13, 2019
The present study attempted to extend our knowledge of the role of reading fluency in contributing to reading comprehension among Turkish students in grades 4 through 8. One hundred students at each grade level were administered assessments of reading fluency, word recognition automaticity and prosody, and silent reading comprehension. Word…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Grade 4